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Unrrnn STATES QFFICE.

PATENT 2* NATHAN J. SIMONDS, OF WOBURN, MASSACHUSETTS.

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To all whom 'it fm (cy concern:

Be it known that I, NATHAN J. SIMONDS, of Woburn, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvem ents in Shoe-Stidenings, of which the following is a specication:

This invention relates to stiii'enings of leath er; and the invention consists in a stift'euing of such material molded either with a base or bend line, or else molded to the exact form it is to occupy when incorporated in the boot and shoe, as is hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l is a transverse section taken through line w x, Fig. 3. Fig. 2 is a similar section, and shows the bend line molded. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the stiffeningwith the bend line molded. Fig. 4 is a front and side perspective view of a fullyn Fig. 5 is a back and side View of the saine.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several iigures.

In the drawing, c represents the back of the stiiening. b is the face, and a. b are two diminished layers or thicknesses interposed between back c'. and face Z), as shown, the whole being rolled to a beveled edge, as shown in Figs. l and 2. When the stiftening is prepared for molding, in whatever manner, the rst process is to cnt away a small portion on line c, as shown at c, Figs. 3 and 4. In some kinds of stiftening it is necessary to cut several of these notches to facilitate molding. When it is desired onlyr to mold a bend line, as shown at h, Fig. 3, the stiffening is placed in a properly-constructed die, operated by machinery, by which the part marked gis bent at right angle to that marked f, so that line c is in one plane and line d in another, the two being at about ninety degrees from each other, But when it is intended to mold the stiffening into the form it will occupy in the shoe, it is molded in dies, operated by machinery, to the form shown in Figs. lLand 5, in which case the part gis at an angle of about ninety degrees with part f; but this latteris molded to a curve corresponding to the counter of the shoe, so that an gle g is in the exact form to be attached to the heel of the inner sole, while angle f is in proper form to be interposed between the layers or parts of the boot or shoe counter.

When the stiffening is molded, as shown in Fig. 3, it is readily curved to any desired form of counter, and for certain classes of work possesses peculiar advantages; but for general purposes a full y-molded stibnin g is preferred.

As the invention herein described does not conl sist in the processes or mechanism employed, but only in the article produced, a description of the mechanical means employed is not deemed necessary, especially as the same are shown in the Patent Office.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture and sale a leather stiffening, composed of a back, a, face b, and one or more diminished pieces, as shown at c and bf, and having the edge rolled or otherwise flattened, as shown, and molded by machinery, substantially in form as described and shown in Figs. 4 and 5.

NATHAN J. SIMONDS.

Witnesses:

FBEN HUTcHrNsoN, EDWARD F. HALL. 

